Anyone a property Surveyor?

ash_scotland88 · 9 May 2017 at 11:50

As per title anyone here a property surveyor, more exacting a residential property surveyor?

Looking into retraining and wanting to hear what poeple's day to day roles are. Up here in Scotland one needs a home report to sell a house and would like to be the person that does that. Apart from my love/keen interest in property and buildings in general one major appeal is that it'll be close to a standard Mon-fri 9-5 and won't be stuck in an office for most of the day.

Does this sort of role have an "earn and learn" type positions, if so any tips where to look for them. Going to send off an email to some of the big companies up here but hoping for some leads.

ash_scotland88 · 9 May 2017 at 12:56

Admittedly this is part of the draw to it, although don't know how easy it is to go freelance type for this sort of thing.
I'm hoping there would be more stimulating aspects to this sort of role. I've seen the odd bit saying the role offers planning support too.

ash_scotland88 · 10 May 2017 at 10:45

Up here it's farmed out to surveyor companies (Graham and Sibbald, Allied Surveyors) plan would be to use this as an entrance into a wider role of a property surveyor. But as been pointed out for hundreds per house even at this stage freelance is tempting

ash_scotland88 · 11 May 2017 at 22:13

Yeah, to me, chartered surveyor is different. I think I've seen vacancies offering with a minimum of an HND level and many companies out there have APC schemes for further career development. Other half is a planner and had to complete post grad vacancy and an other qualification before he was a member of the RICS (or something similar). I was hoping there may be roles available where "earn and learn" would be an option for the early level roles with long term work studies to achieve a greater level of qualification.
There's also SAVA as an option too, but really need to read into it more.